Re: [JPP-Devel] OpenJUMP and "Free" Java

[Joe D. <jde...@gm...>]

It's the goal of the Classpath and GCJ etc project to be fully
compatible with the Java platform, so *in theory* if we did nothing,
in time, this goal should be automatically achieved.

However in practice the free platform lags the latest Sun releases so
in order to make this happen faster one practical step that can be
taken is not to dive into the latest greatest versions of Java being
released from Sun. Eg if we stick with the 1.4 API and source code
standard I think this will help achieve that goal faster.

Is this something we want to do? Or are there compelling features in
1.5 and the soon to be released 1.6 (or it 6, or 6000++turbo or
whatever the Sun marketing people will call it ;).

Joe.



On 5/19/06, Sunburned Surveyor <sun...@gm...> wrote:
> It seems there has been some discussion, and some debate, and wether
> or not we will write OpenJUMP to be compatible with free
> implementations of the Java Virtual Machine.
>
> I wanted to add some comments to the discusssion.
>
> I believe we need a clear policy on this issue. I don't think that
> compatability with a free JVM has been an important goal of OpenJUMP
> up to this point in time. I'm not saying that this would be a bad goal
> of the project, but that it hasn't been a goal, and if it is now a
> goal we need to make that clear to everyone.
>
> As with almost all other decisions in life, there are disadvantageds
> and advantages to both situations. I haven't been able to comit the
> amount of time our other developers like Ugo and Stefan have, so I
> will bend to the wishes of the group and not voice an opinion on the
> matter.
>
> I will only say that we should make a clear decision on the issue. If
> we are going to aim with compatability with a free JVM, we need to
> decide which one, and outline how we plan to proceed.
>
> If this is going to be a new goal of the project, I would like to
> know, becuase I will make the needed changes to the code for
> OpenJUMP-Ex right now, when I am getting started. I'm sure others in
> our development community would appreciate being able to do the same.
>
> If we can't come to a unanimous decision on this, the Development
> Committee could hold a quick vote.
>
> Your Friend,
>
> The Sunburned Surveyor
>
>
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